Using the Prologue theme with Wordpress and you’ll get a Twitter lookalike. Wordpress/Prologue combination is really a very powerful microblogging platform.
It is like having a Twitter blog with totally full control, customization plus the advantage of your favorite plugins.
In fact, I have it installed on a Wordpress MU site - wassup.myblog.sg.
Wow, I thought this is a brilliant idea - “Display Advertising Without Annoying Your Regular Readers” by Dan of TheWrongAdvices.com. It is a simple script.
<?php
$referer = $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’];
$url = strtolower(urldecode($referer));
if ( eregi(”www\.google((\.[a-z]{2,3}){1,2})[/\]search”,$url) )
{ ?>
INSERT YOUR AD CODE HERE
<?php } ?>
I am amazed with the quality of these free Adsense optimized templates/themes which I stumbled upon this morning while looking for Wordpress for business type of templates/themes. Here’s two of my favorite:
I was having trouble with canonical URLs issue with this blog. When you entered http://shihengcheong.com/blog it would be redirected to
http://www.shihengcheong.com.com/blog/
You see, I’ve been used mod_rewrite to redirect all URL with www- prefix to the non-www URL i.e.
http://shihengcheong.com/
The mod-rewrite in the .htaccess at the root directory works fine.
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I mentioned in my earlier post, Top Ranking for Blog, about a blog marketing course. The trainer of the workshop, Tan Kian Ann was featured in yesterday The New Paper. And here’s the report…
I believe many people will love to see their blogs or blog posts being ranked top in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Live(MSN) Search.
And I thought I would prepare a 90-minute seminar to introduce working executives to SEO and Blogging with a catchy title… (more…)
I found blogging so much more fun after I started using MyBlogLog. Now, whenever I’m online, I’ll login to find out who’d been to my blogs!
Initially, the motivating factor for me to trade my name and email address is the free tracking service offered by MyBlogLog. And I have no idea how powerful MyBlogLog can help me to grow my readership and traffic with its social networking model.
The traffic to my blog exploded and I have many more readers. I call this phenomenon, viral blogging.
I started my membership on 3rd January, 2007. The traffic to my blog has since grown exponentially - from Alexa ranking 5,000,000 to 228,228(as of Jan 26, 2007). My blog communities have 16 Contacts and 7 Admirers!
In less than a month, I am already addicted to MyBlogLog - not for it’s free tracking and statistics services but for it powerful social networking features. I’ve found many blogs in my area of interest: SEO and Search Marketing. I am connecting to people interested in SEO and search marketing, and many bloggers from Singapore.
I think Singapore is becoming the Blogging Nation. My unofficial statistics rank Singapore first in the world for the number of active bloggers per capita.
Visit The MyBlogLog Blog and get to know the great people behind this fantastic service and find out loads of new MyBlogLog features.
[UPDATE Feb 2, 2007] Just discovered that Lee Oden of TopRankBlog.com got an interview with MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer.
This blog is now ranked PR4! That is, Google has pagerank’ed this blog from PR 0 to PR 4. 
Thank you, thank you… to all those who link to me. I appreciate your reading and citing of what I’m ranting writing here.
I’ve noticed Google dancing over the past 10 days. A couple of my websites suffered a drop in pagerank - from PR4 to PR3. I think it’s because I’ve neglected them(for a long time, maybe more than 9 months) and have not been adding new content and implemented new link building campaign with them. So it’s sort of expected.
The good news is, for those websites that I actively SEO and build links, the pagerank have improved. I have a couple of web pages gained from PR4 to PR5. One point to note is that, these websites are focusing on Singapore-based traffic - in my own jargon, it’s Singapore SEO‘ed!
However, gaining higher pagerank is one thing and actually gaining higher position in the search engine result is more important. Isn’t it?
Before I could get the time to upgrade my WordPress 2.0.6 to 2.0.7, WordPress 2.1 (Ella) is here!
So I want to know what’s in it for me to upgrade to the new version. When I read the features list, I am glad to know that…
You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to use WordPress as a content management system.
I will definite install Ella 2.1 and try out the CMS features.
The other important features to me are:
The Autosave. I tend to lose my writing and have to resort to using a text editor to compose my post before copying it to Wordpress and format it.
New version of Askimet. I believe the new version will catch more SPAM and honest readers will not be mistaken for making comment at this blog.
New, more efficient database code which translates to faster page loading when I add a post, update a post or displaying my blog on your browser!
However, I don’t quite understand this…
New search engine privacy option allows you take you to indicate your blog shouldn’t ping or be indexed by search engines like Google.
Maybe you would like to comment on this and enlighten me what’s this “privacy option”.
Yesterday, less than 14 hours ago, I installed Wordpress 2.0.6 to my domain Shi.SG and now they have Wordpress 2.0.7. I guess I’ll have to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0.7. It is uncommon to have a upgrade so soon unless there’s a really urgent need to do so. Right?
I am going to work on Wordpress as my preferred blogging platform. There are just too many benefits with Wordpress for me to adopt this fantastic blog engine despite the hassle of installing and constant upgrading my website so very often.
And here’s just 2 of The Most Important Benefits…
Wordpress is definitely more flexible for me to to SEO optimization. One of the biggest advantages is that you can use search engine friendly URLs e.g.
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/2007/01/predictions-for-2007/
which is preferred by the search engine rather than
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/?p=49
One of the main reasons why this blog did so well, in terms of Alexa ranking, is because of the trackback feature. You see, when I quoted others’ blog posts, Wordpress can automatically create a comment at the post I quoted. And I am getting a lot more visitors to my blog because of these comments.
This is one of the most powerful way to promote your blog. I guess this is also part of social media marketing.